GeForce GT 240M and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 240M vs GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce GT 240M
219
GeForce 8600M GS
72
GeForce GT 240M
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
N10P-GS
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
June 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Core clock speed
550 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
116.16 gflops
28.8 gflops
Gigaflops
174
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
16
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
3.600
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-